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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Matthew East, Jonathan Riddell, Matthew East
  • Date: 2006-05-21 21:32:00 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20060521213200-1i156mdu9sd9wuxz
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[ Jonathan Riddell ]
* Add links in each langauge to en/common, makes html files work when 
  viewed without help:/ ioslave

[ Matthew East ]
* Updated translations for everything (last update before the release)

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    <title>Network File System (NFS)</title>
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            <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="network-file-system"></a>Network File System (NFS)</h2>
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      <p>
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          NFS allows a system to share directories and files with others
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          over a network. By using NFS, users and programs can access
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          files on remote systems almost as if they were local files.
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          Some of the most notable benefits that NFS can provide are:
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            <p>Local workstations use less disk space because commonly used data
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can be stored on a single machine and still remain accessible to others
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over the network.</p>
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            <p>There is no need for users to have separate home directories on
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every network machine. Home directories could be set up on the NFS
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server and made available throughout the network.</p>
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            <p>Storage devices such as floppy disks, CDROM drives, and USB
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Thumb drives can be used by other machines on the network. This may
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reduce the number of removable media drives throughout the
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network.</p>
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          At a terminal prompt enter the following command to install the NFS
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<span xmlns="" xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><strong class="command">sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server</strong></span></span>
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/ubuntu  *(ro,sync,no_root_squash)
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          You can replace * with one of the hostname formats. Make the
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<span xmlns="" xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><strong class="command">sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start</strong></span></span>
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<span xmlns="" xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><strong class="command">sudo mount example.hostname.com:/ubuntu /local/ubuntu</strong></span></span>
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          <a href="http://nfs.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">Linux NFS faq</a>
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